Second-mover advantage and price leadership in Bertrand duopoly

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-20

  Amir, Rabah ^a   Stepanova, Anna ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endogenous timing; First second mover advantage; Price competition; Risk dominance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644920932     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: 10902473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2005.03.004     Document Type: Article

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